Rebekka Ween
About
Work areas
- Bi1002 Faunistics and floristics
- Cordinates the floristics field courses, labs, lectures and exams
- Bi2023 Community ecology and ecosystems
- Aids in field course organisation, teaching and exams
- Head of the educational botany collection of plants, fungi, algae, lichens and moss
- Aids students and staff in floristics studies
Competencies
- Botanical field work
- Generic test sampling
- Seed collection and storage
- Field analysis of climate and population parameters
- Pollination exlusion experiments
- Time-lapse cameras
- Plant diversity mapping (PIM, transects, plots etc)
- Wild flower meadow restauration and establishment
- HMS in the field
- Botanical species identification and herbariums
- Herbarium collections
- Identification of plants, fungi, lichens, algae and moss
- Green house, laboratories and freeze experiments
- Microscope and stereo lense
- Reproduction studies (seeds quality, genetics, phylogentics studies etc)
- Growth studies, drought studies, frost tolerance studies
- Project leadership and research projects
- Supervision of students
- Project coordination and leadership
- Application writing, including budjet and planning
- Data analsys and graphical design
- Outreach in norwegian and english
Research
Previous research project and groups:
- 2020-2022 BIG (Bjørndalen Integrated Gradients) led by Pernille Bronken Eidesen
- Feltlaboratory in Bjørndalen, Svalbard
- Bjørndalen Integrated Gradients (BIG) - UNIS
- 2020-2022 PollinatorWatch og BitCue prosjekt led by Toke Thomas Høye
- Automatisc camera monitoring of flowering phenology and pollination in polar regions
- BITCue.pdf (eu-interact.org)
- 2020 UniSprout prosjekt "Not all flowers are equal: Plant-pollinator interactions in a changing Arctic"
- 2019 Siri Fjellheim Research Group
- Fylogenetisc analysis of the origins of drough tolerance in Poaceae
- Siri Fjellheim Research Group| Evolution – Botany – Molecular Ecology | Siri Fjellheim homepage
- 2014-2015 CREES Manu
- Long-term Biodiversity Monitoring
- Research Program – Supporting a sustainable Amazon (crees-foundation.org)
Publications
Stolsmo SP, Lindberg CL, Ween RE, Schat L, Preston JC, Humphreys AM, Fjellheim S (2024) Evolution of frost and drought responses in cool season grasses (Pooideae): was drought tolerance a precursor to frost tolerance? bioRxiv 2024.04.19.590374. (pre-print, in press Journal Experimental Botany)
Ween, R. E. (2022). Timing is everything: Within-plant flowering phenology impacts fruit production in the Arctic-Alpine cushion plant Silene acaulis (L.) Jacq (Master's thesis, UiT Norges arktiske universitet).
Hoye, T. H., Mann, H. M. R., Raundrup, K., Ween, R. E., & Eidesen, P. B. (2020). AUTOMATED MONITORING USING TIME-LAPSE CAMERAS TO STUDY PLANT PHENOLOGY. Greenland Ecosystem Monitoring Report Card 2019. DCE - Danish Centre for Environment and Energy, Aarhus Universitet.
Ween, R. E., & Michaud, A. (2018). Flowers of Svalbard. Norsk Botanisk Forening (non peer-reviewed).
Teaching
- BI1002 Faunistics and floristics
- Cordinates the floristics field courses, labs, lectures and exams
- BI2034 Community ecology and ecosystems
- Aids in field course organisation, teaching and exams
- BI1003 Ecology, behaviors, evolution and sustainability
- Substitute and guest-lecturer